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10 The Arizona Republic Phoenix, Fit, April 4, W9 Only a Beep Beep roadrunner, of llie cuckoo family, Mould nest on the engine of a lumber carrier. She flies atvay uhen the machine is in use al ihe Trus-Joist Corp., 2530 S. 16th Avenue. More about Police rout hippie invasion of Palm Springs Continued from Page 1 Watched quietly in what they called their fair, but firm, policy. Three teen-agers were injured during the past two days when they fell from rocky cliffs in the canyon. Arrests neared the 300 mark yesterday, up 121 per cent from Easter week last year. Traffic accidents were up 78 per cent. One teen-ager was seriously wounded and two others suffered minor wounds when a gas station owner fired at a group of marauding students, who refused to obey his order to leave his property late Wednesday night. He said he fired in self-defense. Police were aided in their efforts to rout the students by a sudden storm and by; predictions from self-styled prophets that a massive earthquake on Good Friday will wrench Southern California from the mainland and it will slide into the Pacific Ocean. Several of the departing youths said they were moving to safer territory before the temblor struck. A surprise storm gave the young peo- pie camping uninvited on lawns of expensive homes and hotels and in canyon areas an unexpected bath early yesterday. The storm was accompanied by high winds that kicked up a biting sandstorm. Hitchhikers, some carrying signs indicating such diverse destinations us New York, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Pennsylvania, stood along the highway leading from this isolated resort. Vehicles ranging from dune buggies to campers and packed with young people re- tre&ted from the spa in the face of police warnings, unkind weather and qila'ke prophecies. For the second night in a row Wednesday, a pop festival turned into a rock and bottle throwing melee as thousands ofl students turned on police trying to maintain order. Police, reinforced by about 300 offi- cejs from other Southern California areas, engaged in sporadAi tattles with the, 8,000 youngsters who packed into Thoresen given 6 months* wife gets probation United Press International SAN FRANCISCO — Millionaire gun collector William E. Thoresen III, 31, was, sentenced yesterday to six months imprisonment and 9Va years of probation for violation of firearms laws. Thoresen's wife, Louise, 32, received a sentence of three years probation. The Thoresens were also fined a total of $8,000. U.S. District Judge William Goodwin imposed the sentences after the couple pleaded guilty in Fresno to two charges each of gun law violation. Attorney John J. Flynn, representing William, said he will appeal the sentence. Goodwin continued Thoresen's bond and he remained free on appeal. The Thoresens have been involved in various gun charges since their Pacific Heights mansion in San Francisco was raided in April 1967 by federal, state and local agents. At this and other locations the government seized more than 70 tpns of weapons and ammunition. Thoresen said he had the weapons be- he is a gun collector. its. Attorney Cecil Poole agreed with Fljjin that there is no evidence the gun collection had anything to do with activi- tiei hostile to the interest of the United However, Poole said, he felt Thpre- 860*8 activities were "serious, intentional, deliberate violations of the laws of the;' United States" and recommended that to be given some period of incar- <Mf|tion» Poole said he had no such rec- regarding Mrs. Thoresen, Angel Stadium for the four-hour program. The officers were the targets of rocks and sand-filled beer cans and bottles. The invasion this Easter vacation was about four times larger than in previous years and police believed the fact that Southern California beaches were fouled by oil drew the vacationers here instead. Police Chief Robert White called the intruders "a new breed," who flaunted their disrespect for law and order. The youths gathered in groups on the streets and dared motorists to hit them. They stole food from restaurants without paying and siphoned gasoline from autos. The sale of marijuana and dangerous drugs was reported to be so widespread, one officer said, "you can smell it on the street." Another said of the unwanted visitors, "They're dirty. They're smelly. You can see them coming, and you can smell them coming." One youth, asked why he came, said: "It's where it's at. There are groovy chicks, rock concerts and freaky groups." More about Guard called to quell Chicago riots Continued from Page 1 pered his assertion by saying police should use the minimum force necessary. Busloads of blue helmeted policemen were ordered into the disturbance areas as Supt. James Conlisk put his men on overtime. Shattered glass and debris, including rubble leftover from last year's outbreak, littered streets in the districts hit by disorders. Khaki-clad police recruits, fresh from the academy and armed only with batons, were placed on guard in police headquarters on South State Street as more officers were sent into the disturbance area. Gen. Richard Dunne held a conference with Conlisk in police headquarters and National Guard sources said the troops would be moved onto the streets later. Windows were shattered at Crane High School at 2245 Jackson Blvd. on the West Side, and violence spread to nearby streets. Five persons were injured. Some looting was reported. Eight youngsters were arrested. At Crane, following King memorial services, pupils threw chairs. Some went outside and pegged rocks through windows. Some lunchroom counters were broken. Crane suspended classes. Looters knocked out the windows of a store on Madison Street near West- ern Avenue, a half mile from Crane, and snatched women's clothing. A spokesman for the Chicago Transit Authority, which operates the city's bus and subway system, reported windows were broken in four buses at Madison and Western. Bands of Negro youths roamed Madison Street. Some of them hurled rubble from the property wrecked in the same area in race rioting a year ago. Madison Street was closed for 28 blocks, from Danien Avenue to Cicero Avenue. A Board of Education spokesman said members of a Negro group known as the Black Panthers entered Englewood High School at 6201 S. Stewart Ave. Thursday. A series of false fire alarms was sounded. Classes were dismissed. All public schools will be closed today in observance of Good Friday. Just 10 boys for every girl Fairer sex claim they came for 'the iveather' United Press International FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Big boys, little boys, skinny boys, fat boys, boys with muscles, boys with wavy hair, young boys, old boys. It's at least 8-1, maybe even 10-1. Boys, boys, boys. "It's terrific," sighed Leslie Plachter, 17, a high school girl from nearby Hollywood. "I can't figure it out, but I'm not complaining," said Kathy Rivers, 23-year-old hair dresser from Hyannisport, Mass. Jeannie Luttenton, a University of Maryland senior, inhaling enough to nearly burst her bikini, breathed, "It's just great." This is where the boys are this year. It's the annual spring vacation invasion of college students and more than ever the campus males in quest of beer and girls outnumber the coeds. Thursday before Easter, the high point of the invasion, was quiet. If you can call quiet the cacophony of youthful conversation, blaring radios, the psychedelic thump of "Sweetheart," and the bare-foot shuffle of 20,000 oiled youths crammed into a 2-mile-long strip of two sidewalks and a 100-yard-wide beach. There were no riots, no revolutions, no protests, boycotts or other disturbances in progress or, apparently, under discussion. Few students were in the ocean water. It held the tell-tale blue puff balls of Portuguese man of war, the stinging jellyfish. By noon, police said ,the Broward County Medical Center had treated at least 20 students for jellyfish stings. Hot sun blistered through clouds to the bodies of America's youth yesterday, brightening a scene which had been cool, windy and rainy for more than a week. The weather was blamed for making the crowd, by most estimates, smaller than last year. Lt. J. E. Miller, the man in charge of the police beach patrol, estimated 20,000 students on hand and 5,000 more expected by Sunday. At a 10-1 boy-girl ratio, that would mean more than 20,000 boys. As in many years past, most of the boys were grumbling about the lack of girls. "I think it stinks, it simply doesn't live up to its reputation," said Bill Cain from the University of Maryland, making his first visit. "Those college girls — you ask them what they came down here for and they say 'the weather'." More whites go to S. Africa PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) South Africa attracted 40,548 white immigrants during 1968, an increase of nearly 2,000 over 1967, the Bureau of Statistics says. Some 10,589 whites left the country, 248 fewer than in 1967. Mao's book fills gap in Israel JERUSALEM (AP) - When the Soviet Union imposed an embargo on the only commodity it sells Israel — books — the Peoples' Republic of China quickly offered to fill the gap. The Communist Chinese catalogue contained only one offering, the selected works of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Nixon expected to appoint new consumer head Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - President Nixon is expected to name Mrs. Wilhelm Knauer, director of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection and a prominent Republican, as a special assistant on consumer problems. Administration sources said it will be a full-time position and not just for the purposes of making a study and recommendations as was the earlier appointment of Willie Mae Rogers, director of the Good Housekeeping Institute. MISS ROGERS resigned after four days in the wake of public criticism for her retaining her position with the institute while working without pay for the Nixon administration. A member of the Philadelphia City Council for eight years until her second term expired in January 1968, Mrs. Knauer has been head of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection for the past 13 months. The bureau, in the State Department of Justice, initiates new programs, plans all activities of consumer protection and education and directs the operation of five branch offices scattered in major cities throughout the state. ANNOUNCEMENT of the selection of Mrs. Knauer for the post last held by television personality Betty Furness, is believed to have been delayed by the death of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Mrs. Knauer was in the White House last Friday when the news of Eisenhower's death came before she got to see President Nixon. He has not yet signed her appointment, but the signing is expected shortly. Truman visits Key West, shows 'give 'em heW grin Associated Press KEY WEST, Fla. - Wearing a blue blazer former President Harry S. Truman visited his onetime summer White House yesterday and surprised his Host by reviewing a U.S. Marine honor guard. The 84-year-old Truman trailed a cane as he walked past the Marines assembled on the concrete seawall where he used to take his morning constitutionals. The band from the Navy Sonar School played ruffles and flourishes as Truman moved past the honor guard, stopping occasionally to chat with the veterans back from Vietnam. His step was a bit tottering but the old "give 'em hell" grin was there and he flashed a snappy salute when the guidon flag was dipped. He smiled broadly when girls in the windows of the base administration building applauded. Last steam engine scrapped SHEFFIELD, England (AP) - British Railways has handed over locomotive No. 48493, said to be its last steam engine, to a scrap metal yard. The 34- year-old engine traveled more than 1 million miles on British frieght routes. Chinese party cites numbers TAIPEI (AP) — The Koumintang, President Chiang Kai-shek's ruling party, had 919,327 members in Nationalist China at the end of 1968, a party report says. In addition, the party claims 81,485 members in various other countries. In the distance, two howitzers barked- off a 21-gun salute. Sailors aboard the Bushnell, an 18,000-ton submarine tender tied up at the seawall, stood rail guard for the brief but impressive ceremony. Overhead, the flag still flew at half mast for former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Truman was accompanied by his wife, his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Daniel, and his four grandchildren. The guests sat in s'teel folding chairs on the lawn flanked by, two antiquated antiaircraft guns. ;;. Afterwards. Truman climbed into a limousine with Florida plates, "HST" for the one-block ride to the white jalou- sied Little White House where Rear Adm. Frederick J. Beush, the present tenant, hosted a luncheon in his honor. While he dined on coq au win, wild rice casserole and chilled white wine, Truman looked about him and recognized only two pieces of furniture from the days when he spent 11 working vaca- tins in Key West. They were the octagonal mahogany poker table made for him and his friends by a Navy carpenter and the piano off the old presidential yacht Williamsburg. Truman strolled onto the small lawn for a photo session with the newspaper and television photographers but declined to make any statement. Other guests at the luncheon besides the Truman family were former State Sen. and Mrs. John Spottswood and State Sen. John Mathews of Jacksonville. Truman has been staying at a waterfront villa here owned by Spottswood and is winding up a two-week vacation. LEARNING — Children at the Detroit Day School for the Deaf use head sets as sound waves are transmitted to them in a special program for handicapped children. Many facilities in the area have more than doubled as a result of the tragedy of the German measles epidemic which swept the nation in 1964. They are.children whose mothers contracted the disease during the first three months of their pregnancies. TROOP REVIEW — Former President Harry Truman, interrupting his Key West, Fla., vacation, reviewed a platoon of Marines stationed at Key West Naval Station yesterday.

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